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Ryanair plan for standing-only plane tickets foiled by regulator 25 May 2012 | 04:20 am
Ryanair has announced that an unnamed regulator has thwarted its plan to sell standing-only tickets, by refusing an application for test flights. Under the scheme, a Boeing 737-800 would be fitted ou...
Eurozone crisis live – Tuesday 28 February 25 May 2012 | 04:20 am
5.24pm: We are bringing this blog to a close for today but will be back tomorrow to follow the ECB’s latest liquidity injection, further reaction to Ireland’s referendum plan and other events in the s...
Jeremy Paxmans Empire: a wasted chance we need to take 25 May 2012 | 04:20 am
Watching the first episode of Jeremy Paxman’s Empire on BBC1 last night I thought several times: “I hope we’re not paying Paxo extra for this stuff, it looks to me as if it’s given him a very agreeabl...
NGOs upbeat over Chinas environmental transparency progress 25 May 2012 | 04:20 am
Green activists applauded steady progress on environmental transparency in China after public campaigns forced major players, including Apple and the Beijing government, to release sensitive informati...
Battling bureaucracy and brambles 25 May 2012 | 04:20 am
In my last post I mentioned that I would be going with my friend to ‘report’, so, three days before Christmas off we went to the United Kingdom Border Agency offices in Leeds to do just that. This pro...
The charity disparity: can corporate benevolence be free of self-interest? 25 May 2012 | 04:20 am
For all the talk of aid dependency, Haiti is more dependent on remittances – people sending money home from abroad – than donations. While aid averaged about 12% of its annual income between 2004 and ...
Did Stephen Colbert do for Jon Huntsmans GOP presidential run? 25 May 2012 | 04:20 am
61.9% Yes 38.1% No This poll is now closed
Why do Poles eat more veg than the rest of us? 25 May 2012 | 04:20 am
Poland is not a country often associated with vegetables. When I stayed with a Polish family last year, the food the Baniaks cooked was delicious – think homemade dumplings, potato pancakes, and chick...
Malam Bacai Sanha obituary 25 May 2012 | 04:20 am
Malam Bacai Sanha, who has died aged 64 after suffering from diabetes, was the president of Guinea-Bissau and one of the stalwarts in his country’s struggle for liberation. The war of independence gri...
Muhammad Alis deification shows an America reluctant to confront its past 25 May 2012 | 04:20 am
Muhammad Ali turns 70 today, a septuagenarian. His emergence as boxing’s eminence grise, one of the country’s most beloved figures, tells us much about how Americans construct the past to make sense o...
